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At the half time of the Champions League’s group stage, Bayern must seriously worry about the quarter-finals. Due to the surprising defeat at Bate, it is currently only enough for Borisov to take the second place in Group F – behind the White Russians. Bayern can claim only on goal difference before the equal in points team of Valencia.

With that comes the return leg against OSC Lille on Wednesday (20.45 o’clock), which tends to be more important than it was originally thought. A home win is a must, otherwise there will be a serious struggle for sports survival. For the French, the match in Munich is already something like a final game. After three games, the OSC Lille still has zero points to its name, nor a mistake, and the guys of Rudi Garcia can pack their bags and go home.

Until now, the OSC Lille has only managed to establish themselves in the league alone. After a shaky start, the team took the last ten points from four games, and pushed itself in Ligue 1, and up to seventh place. The leaders in the arrears PSGare now left with only seven points. On the final day, the French celebrated a 2-0 win over Evian TG. This victory was an encouragement for them before the game against the powerful Bayern. Now it would be great if we accomplish a feat in Munich, the OSC Lille’s professional player Pedretti announced after the game.

Bayern also enter into the group match with a sense of achievement; with a 4-0 victory over HSV, they celebrated the attacking football at its best – even Paul Breitner fell into a rapture and compared the team with the FC Barcelona. The defeat against Leverkusen was apparently only an accident: the dreaded “autumn depression” has not settled in for the time being.

Under normal circumstances, the Wednesday is also to be enough for a clear home win; on the labels of the three bookmaker this is considered to be a foregone conclusion; Lille will be allocated as only a slight underdog.

Before the 13th matchday in the Bundesleague Bayern leads at the top of the chart – with no less than eight points ahead of Schalke and Frankfurt. On Saturday, the two runners-up could even take points from each other. They will contest in the top game of the match day at the Veltins-Arena.

The ambitious team Eintracht Frankfurt is still the surprise team of the season. In the recent weeks, in Hesse there was but a clear downward trend that could be seen. The last three away games were lost, the team of Armin Veh won a total of only seven points from their last six games. Currently, the unity of their points cushion is being melted, as at the beginning of the season it had retracted four consecutive wins from attacking football game with a rich tempo.

Against Schalke, the downward trend of the riser is likely to continue, in Gelsenkirchen their unity did not win them anything for twelve games. The Veltins Arena for them is a very bad medicine. The players have lost only once at home (against Bayern) this season and will continue on Saturday and go to the start with the confidence from the Champions League. There they defeated the Greek champions Olympiakos Piraeus yesterday with 1-0, and so moved early into the semi-final stages of the Champions League.

The not so shiny hard-earned victory was a real clearance for the team, after the disastrous performance in the League against Leverkusen. As long as a week ago, the Schalke team went to play in the Bay Arena. In the what was probably their worst performance of the season, it was never true for them.

Mr. Heldt, the manager and Mr. Stevens, coach of the team, did not spare their criticism, and spoke of the “collective failure” of the team. But with Bayer Leverkusen there was also a first class opponent, who knew how to use the weaknesses of Schalke, as the concord seems not to be currently in the position to do so. Although they celebrated on the last day a 4-2 win over Augsburg, this was the last – but not a true indicator.

With the certain qualification for the Championship League’s semi-finals secure in their pocket, the focus of Schalke will again be on the league and their own speeding up and acceleration. Most likely, the runner-up is likely to suffer a loss on Saturday. The bookmakers tip off on a Schalke victory.

On the 12th gameday, Bayern faces a comparatively easy task with the meeting with the First FC Nuremberg. The Clubberer are currently not a truly serious opponent; as seen in the last eight games, the boys of Dieter Hecking will take merely and only four points. Currently, what saves them is only the goal difference against VfL Wolfsburg before slipping off the relegation place.

Quite differently, however, the Bavarians, who have lost their first three points in this season, and have produced, even at foreign stadiums, a fabulous turbulence of 15:0. The weak defense of the FCN is not going to be able to stop the Bavarians, the 44th defeat in the 71st Bavaria Derby is virtually certain.

And an away win of Bavaria is considered a foregone conclusion with the bookies. The only thing that could stop the giants, is their own arrogance. Matthias Sammer warned his players about that already in the game against Valencia, in the Champions League, saying to think beforehand and look at the game against Nuremberg as a fast-selling thing in itself.

Bayer Leverkusen versus Schalke 04 are to be described as the top match of the 12th gameday. The sports betting operators see no clear favorites for this match, and the rates of the Werkself are easily put forward.

Leverkusen suffered a setback in the last game against VfL Wolfsburg, after a series of previous twelve compulsory matches, and with 1:3 Bayer went to the dogs completely. That should not stop the upward trend for the Werkself. Since the dismissal of Robin Dutt, the team has only steadily improved.

With Schalke, things are going even better. As the second in the chart, with only seven points behind Bayern, Schalke are the official Bayern Hunter No. 1. Under the coach Stevens, Schalke are experiencing a new heyday, as recently put, as even in the Champions League – with two exclamation marks for the match against Arsenal London.

The win and the draw against the Gunners have given the team a lot of confidence. A victory at the Bay Arena is always better than possible, because that will also be the requirement to stay in the title race.

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